JPS62100361A - Index device for paper in terminal printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To streamline sorting operations, by inserting paper, printing data out of plural units of computer central processing units, into space between two belts disposed at a paper outlet, and varying a conveying passage of the belt at the lower side at every central processing unit. CONSTITUTION:The paper P printed by a printer body is inserted into space between a conveyor belt 6 and a sorting belt 7 from an arrowed direction. this conveyor belt 6 is of endless type and stretched over fixed rollers 3 and 3'. driving the roller 3 with an electric motor, and the counterpart roller 3' is driven as a follower. The sorting belt 7 has the same circumferential length as the conveyor belt 6, and rotates in the same direction as the conveyor belt 6. Furthermore, the sorting belt 7 makes a variable roller 4 move up and down by a command out of a central processing unit (CPU), and also makes a moving roller 5 move to some extent, varying its contact length with the conveyor belt 6, and the paper P is made to be dropped onto a stacked 91 with its own weight. A drop position of the paper P is sorted at every CPU in advance. With this constitution, sorting operations for the printed paper can be made streamlined.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [) Already required] Of the upper and lower parallel belts provided at the paper exit of the printing device, the conveyance length of the lower belt is determined by the computer central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU).
), several C
It is possible to separate printed materials of data sent from PU.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to paper processing after printing in a printing device of an information device.

In particular, a paper indexing device is desired in a terminal printer that prints data sent from multiple CPUs.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, terminal printers that are responsible for printing on a large number of CP[J] print sequentially according to the order of data sent from each CPU, and indiscriminately stack the printed materials on a stacker using rollers installed at the exit. ing.

The superimposed printed materials can be accessed by the operator of each CPU.
After completing the PU operations, each worker manually examines the printed content to distinguish his/her responsibility.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

The problem with the conventional terminal printer described above is that the operators of each CPU have to manually separate printed materials that are piled up indiscriminately, which causes confusion and takes a lot of time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to provide an hourly paper indexing device that can easily separate printed materials in a terminal printer.

[Means for solving problems]

The above problem is solved by a conveyor belt 6 at the exit of the terminal printer, which sends out the printed materials in the direction of the solid line arrow with two rollers 3.3, and a sorting means, for example, as shown in FIG.
The sorting belt 7 has a structure in which the variable roller 4 moves in the direction of the dotted arrow in response to an identification command from the CPU, and the distance between the axes of the two rollers 5 and 5' is changed to vary the conveyance distance of printed materials.
This problem is solved by the paper indexing device in the terminal printer of the present invention, which changes the leading edge position of the printed material to be discharged to the stacker 91 according to instructions from the control unit 8 upon receiving an identification command sent from the CPU.

[Effect]

That is, in the present invention, the drive mechanism of the variable roller 4 is controlled by the control unit 8 which receives the identification command sent from the CPU for the conveyance heald 6 installed on one side, and the variable roller 4 is moved in the direction of the dotted arrow. By moving, a sorting belt 7 with a predetermined circumference is stretched across two moving rollers 5, 5.
The distance between the axes of the conveyor belt 6 is made variable, and the contact length with the conveyor belt 6 is set to a predetermined dimension.

The printed material discharged from the printing device 1 is fed between the conveyor belt 6 and the sorting belt 7, and both belts 6.7
At the end of the contact, the printed material is dropped onto the stamper 91 by its own weight, and by changing the contact length of both belts 6.7, the leading edge position of the paper is stepped, making it possible to index the paper for each CPU. .

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a paper indexing method in a terminal printer according to this embodiment.

Two side plates 22, 22' placed on both sides of the board 21
Two fixed rollers 3, 3' are attached to the upper part of the belt through hair rings (not shown) at right angles to the direction of the solid line arrow, and a conveyor belt 6 having a predetermined circumferential length, for example, a flat belt made of cloth, is horizontally attached. Stretch it. One of the fixed rollers 3 is directly connected to a drive motor 31 that drives the conveyor belt 6 in the X direction indicated by the solid line arrow at the same speed as the paper discharge speed of the printing device, and its drive power source is connected to the control unit 8. .

At the lower part of this conveyor belt 6, that is, in the direction of the dotted line arrow, a sorting bell 1-7 having the same circumference as the conveyor belt 6, for example, the surface of a cloth woven flat belt comes into contact with the surface of the conveyor heddle 6, and the friction force causes the At the moving position, the movable roller 5' is placed horizontally on both side plates 22 via bearings (not shown) below the fixed roller 3' in the direction of the dotted arrow. A piece 51 that slides in the direction of the solid line arrow through a strip hole provided in 22 and receives rotation of the moving roller 5 is slid together to horizontally suspend the moving roller 5. A spring 52 that applies pressure to the moving roller 5 in the X direction indicated by the solid line arrow and tensions the sorting heald 7 is attached to a moving roller piece 5 that crosses the moving roller 5.
1 and one end of the strip hole, and the sorting heald 7 is stretched.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 2, through two variable roller pieces 46 that slide up and down along the strip holes provided in the center of both side plates 22 and 22' in the direction of the dotted arrow, The variable roller 4 is placed horizontally inside the sorting heald 7. In addition, the cylindrical portion of the variable roller piece 46 is hung on the rectangular holes of the two levers 41 that are integrated with the shaft (not shown) passing through the side plates 22.22°, and the axial direction of the variable roller 4 is The movement is suppressed and the object is moved in parallel in the direction of the dotted arrow.

Next, attach the motor 42 via the fixture 43 above the rectangular hole in the direction of the arrow provided on one side plate 22°, and screw the pole screw 44 into the pole nut (not shown) press-fitted into the variable roller piece 46. is directly connected to the motor 42, and the other end is supported by a bearing 45. A sliding variable resistor 47 (hereinafter referred to as resistor) is attached to one side of the strip hole of one side plate 22'' in the direction of the dotted line arrow, and its movable element is connected to the variable roller piece 46.
The lead wires of the motor 42 and the resistor 47 are connected to the control unit 8.

In practical use, as shown in FIG. 1, the conveyor belt 6 described above and the sorting device incorporating the sorting means into the board 21 are installed in close proximity to the paper outlet of the printing device. A stacker 91 for receiving printed materials is arranged at the exit, and the data sent from each CPU is transferred to the printing device l.
The sorted sheets are printed on paper and passed through the device as documents from the paper discharge port, and then stacked on the stacker 91.

During this printing, each CPU's identification command, for example, A, B, C, D, is sent at the beginning of the data sent from the CPU.

The command corresponding to CPU B is a + b + C +
d + 8 is added, and the printing apparatus 1 receives one of these command signals and transfers the sorting information to the control section 8 of the apparatus.

In the logic circuit of the control unit 8, a designated voltage is set for each command aJic+..., and the printing device 1
A set voltage corresponding to the received command signal is output to a comparison differential amplifier circuit (not shown).

On the other hand, in the resistor 47 to which a predetermined voltage is constantly applied, a voltage corresponding to the position of the variable roller 4 is outputted by the movable element of the resistor 47 hooked to the variable roller piece 46 that supports the variable roller 4, This output voltage is input to the comparison differential amplifier circuit of the control section 8.

In the control section 8, this input voltage and the input voltage corresponding to the command signal are compared and amplified by a comparison differential amplifier and inputted to a motor drive circuit (not shown). This motor drive circuit rotates the motor 42 in the forward or reverse direction.
The variable roller 4 is connected to each CPU using a pole screw 44 directly connected to the CPU.
Move to each designated position in the direction of the dotted arrow and stop. At the same time, a resistor 47 hooked to this variable roller piece 46
The movable element also moves, and the voltage corresponding to the position of the variable roller 4 is sequentially input to the comparison differential amplification circuit of the control section 8.

The motor drive circuit drives the motor 42 until the voltage difference compared and amplified by the comparison differential amplifier circuit becomes zero, that is, until the output voltage of the resistor 47 and the output voltage from the logic circuit of the control section 8 become equal. The movable element of the resistor 47 is
Move to the position corresponding to the command signal received from U.

As described above, by the rotation of the pole screw 44 directly connected to the motor 42, the two variable roller pieces 46 sliding in the strip holes on the side plates 22 and 22' are moved in parallel in the direction of the arrow via the lever 41. As shown in FIG. 3 (al), the variable roller 4 horizontally mounted on the two variable roller pieces 46 is connected to each CPU.
When it moves in the direction of the dotted line arrow to a position corresponding to , the sorting belt 7 of a constant circumference is pulled, and as shown in FIG. The length of contact between the sorting belt 7 and the conveyor belt 6 disposed above the conveyor belt 6 is changed stepwise to change the position of the leading edge of the sheet falling into the stacker 91.

This sorting is an identification command added to the data sent from each CPU by the device, and it becomes possible to discharge the printed materials 7 to the stacker 91 to a position corresponding to each CPU and to distinguish them.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, with an extremely simple configuration, it is possible to separate the printed materials of the data transferred from each CPU, making it easier to classify operators, resulting in significant economic effects. This is expected to be extremely useful in practical terms.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a paper indexing device in a terminal printer according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the driving of variable rollers in this embodiment, and FIG. It is a side view for explaining the positional relationship of rollers in an example. In the figure, ■ is the printing device, 2I is the board, 22 is the side plate, 3.3" is the fixed roller, 4 is the variable roller, 41 is the lever, 42 is the motor, 44 is the ball screw, and 46 is the variable roller piece. , 47 is a sliding variable resistor, 5.5 is a moving roller, 51 is a moving roller piece, 52 is a coil spring,
6 is a conveyor belt, 7 is a sorting belt, 8 is a control unit, 91 is a stacker, and 92 is a printed material, not shown. , Seven Toys and Ming - 7-MiT Lufuri〉Evening Song〉pu”□77M4゜Fig. 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] A parallel belt (6
, 7) A paper indexing device for a terminal printer, characterized in that it comprises a means for sorting the sheets according to the computer central processing unit, and a control section 8 for controlling the sorting.